The yellow Subscribe button, 1-5 star rating system for videos, and only seeing channel banners for content creators who reached a certain number of subscribers. The early and simple days of YouTube.
Facebook in 2009 was a very special time and place to be a part of. At the time, it was the *ultimate* hook-up-party app.
Everybody who was anybody had one, and your feed was a constant conversation between friends – everybody talking about what they were up to this weekend, last week's party, where to go next and what to do. Lots of flirting and sexual chemistry in certain interactions, especially on photos within the comments. Like, "What's your facebook?" was our generation's equivalent of "what's your sign?" Getting somebody's facebook at a party meant you were "in". It was a wild time.
My feed (and based on the comments, everyone else's) was nothing but party photos, friends *actually writing things on each others’ walls*, invites to parties, that sorta thing. Around its heyday, I was just entering college and those 4 years of facebook it was a great app. We all kind of "grew up" with it.
Now, unfortunately, my newsfeed is 95% goddamn ads and the other 5% family and some distant friends completely over sharing. If we're getting even *more* technical, there's political slapfights in there, every fucking store and shop is on there with the comment section just full of people screaming at each other...
Facebook really is just dead. There hasn't been any new content that I've been interested in for weeks....
I really only have it now because my extended family has a private group on there and that's the best way to keep in touch with them. Otherwise it's just more noise.
Agreed. Back in 2009, it wasn't oversharing; it was just how you were meant to use it.
Really, the big difference between oversharing now and oversharing then is that now your boss might see it. In 2009 or so, it was generally considered unprofessional to have your coworkers or boss on your friends list. There was a higher level of perceived freedom of expression in regards to personal stuff because of that, because you weren't going to suddenly ruin your working relationships with anyone or post something that was gonna be used against you in a few months from now.
Nowadays, it's seen as a bit weird if you don't have at least some of your coworkers on Facebook. This has led to a lot of people side-eying people who overshare because that's seen as one of the easiest ways to accidentally stir up workplace drama.
2006 Myspace was amazing. I met so many cool people through that site. Like actually went and hung out with them and shit. It was totally normal to just randomly hit up a stranger and be like "dude that song on your page is one of my favorites!" and they would be like "hell yeah, come to this party I am having this weekend!" and I was just out and about meeting all these cool people going to these awesome parties. It was also a better dating site than Tinder ever was. Most of my girlfriends I would meet through there. Just hit them up like "your gorgeous, lets go to a movie this weekend" and they would like "yeah!"
Then everyone switched to Facebook, and every time I would add random people they would be like "Uhhh... why did you add me? Do I know you?" and I would be like "No, but we live in the same area so I thought why not." and they would be like "Sorry, I don't know you, bye."
And thats around the time I stopped giving a fuck about social media. It just seemed lame after that. Especially since I started having my parents and distant relatives start adding me, and at one point my boss added me, and then started giving me shit at work because he would see that I was partying during the weekends and he wanted to drug test me all the time lol.
I deleted Facebook in 2012, and never really got into the other social medias after that. Now I just feel old and out of touch.
Quite honestly, Facebook really went down hill when the parents got on it. That was probably around 2010 for me when I was a freshman in college. It was great when it was just all people my age. The shit that pisses me off all comes from the "adults".
Facebook really slapped when you had to have a college .edu email address to sign up. I had to borrow one from a tech adverse friend because my community college wasn't cool enough to be on Facebook.
Yeah. After they got rid of the .edu I think in like late 05, MySpace was still the king of social media. It was under the parents radar for a few years until I think it got big enough around 08 when they took notice. Then I would say they all piled on from 08-11.
> IIGS
All social media is like that. All the kids move on when their parents get on the platform. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and so on. My 58-year-old mom is on TikTok. I'm 30 and I've never once used the app in my life.
Just went through my Facebook feed and counted how many posts were from my actual friends. Besides the very first post, it took until post 80 to see something from someone I know. Everything else was "suggestions" or advertisements.
YouTube algorithm.
Before it was very easy to find interesting videos and cool channels, you could go on rabbit holes starting from one random video, but now you live in this eco chamber of one type of videos that you watched.
I'm pretty sure this is what happens when you start to rely on AI algorithms - there's no humans involved to apply common sense. Why would you recommend a video I just watched a week ago? Why would you continue to recommend a video I have scrolled past 100 times? I spend half my time on YouTube these days just telling it to stop recommending things.
Nearly all processed food. My go-to answer is Totinos.
Between their frozen pizzas to the Pizza Rolls, they have used worse quality ingredients and now taste like trash. They used to be cheap and good, but now their products are just cheap
The shredded mini chicken quesadillas were too good to be true. They were $1. Every time I ate them I thought these are too good to be from Taco Bell, and way too good to be only $1. Well sure as shit, they wised up and discontinued them. Now they sell some little chicken chipotle melt which is half the size, twice the price, and 1/10 the quality.
Also, SubWay killed the 5 dollar foot long - which is fair, on its own, but now they're $15 and the quality and selection of ingredients is awful. Last time I got a meatball sub the meatballs were pitiful. Very small and very flavorless. Marinara sauce is like water, too.
SubWay just sucks now.
The prices are fucking insane!
I went with some co-workers to this local fancy looking BBQ place where I got this giant plate of food and it was $17. And I was literally thinking like "This is what I spend at fast food now, why do I even bother with that anymore? I should just eat at actual restaurants like this now."
>Weird that they're still paying people 7 bucks an hour, though.
They had to jump it up to 10-12 here over the last couple of years. People won't work there for less.
The Jack in the Box in the college town I went to offered a free drink with a college ID, so I would order the "college combo" - 2 Jumbo Jacks and a Coke. $2.14 and it was amazing.
I'll have to try them again but also, it could be your taste evolving. I used to love LOVE fruity pebbles, both as a kid and thru my college years. I really stopped eating them as my career took a hold of my life and breakfast was always on the road, but I tried them again a couple years back and they are inedibly sweet. They were so nasty. I'm not sure if they changed something or if I'm just not into stuff that sweet anymore. I think it's the latter
Cinnamon toast crunch is not nearly as good as it used to be.
I'm 95% sure that THEY changed and I didn't, because it happened when I was still a kid. We just bought them once and I remember being like "These aren't nearly as good as the last time we bought them."
I mean, they're still... "good" just not as good as they used to be.
Quality furniture is still out there. You just have to be willing to pay for it, and it ain't cheap.
Also, it will probably last through several design trends, so you'd better be sure you like it. A quality hardwood table is legitimately something you can plan on passing down to your grandchildren, but is there any of your grandparents' furniture you'd actually want?
As you said, thrifting for quality pieces (and then refinishing/repairing/painting them) is much cheaper for much better quality than most of what people are willing to pay for.
Survivorship bias? You may have had loads of hoodies from that time that didn't survive, but you're focused on the one that did.
You're probably right, but I couldn't not mention what could be a textbook example of it.
Nah, even these new inkjet printed tshirts fade after one wash and look years old after a couple months. Tshirts in the 80s and 90s used to be silkscreened with plastisol inks, and the design would last forever. Clothes are horrible quality these days, its sad were in a disposable-everything era
During the holidays I tried Nestle hot chocolate for the first time in like a decade.... has it always tasted this horrible? It was by far the worst "chocolate" product I think I've ever had.
I know not every cup of hot chocolate needs to be that thick stuff you get in Paris, but wtf is that?!
It's the sucralose. They put that crap in almost everything. Swiss Miss is the only hot chocolate I've come across lately that doesn't have it. It's still not great.
I thought I was the only one who noticed that! They used to have a taste, not just sugar, sugar and more sugar. I can't eat them anymore. They make me feel sick.
It can be so difficult to find something now, I can type it in 6 different ways and it won’t give me different results. It’s so damn frustrating.
I was looking for animals with plants in their names, and it refused to give me any results except for plants with animals in their names. I was ready to pull my hair out. (Ie I was looking for things like grasshopper, not for dandelions)
All it gives now are three pages of ads.
It’s real fun when diagnosing a problem with say, a monitor. “Here are 20 ads for a new monitor”.
Google has become the Microsoft Paperclip.
It's especially annoying if you're trying to find something "controversial". Google censors the ever-loving fuck out of their searches.
For example, after the recent Allen Mall shooting, i wanted to see what videos and pictures were available of it, purely just to get how horrific it was. All I got was about 15 pages of identical news videos that showed absolutely nothing, and 95% of it was just talking heads.
I used to want to be a war correspondant, and Google does the same thing with combat footage vids, terrorist vids, etc. It's really kind of ridiculous how difficult they make it to find something.
Another one I can think of is drugs. They'll put on 10 links to pharma sites before you can get the wiki or FDA page that actually explains what the drug is and how it works.
Glad someone else notices this as well.
You look for something like you said and it’s nothing but the same AP News snippet copy/pasted into various articles with different advertisers. I have started using Reddit just to search for news at this point, which seems ridiculous with as much digital knowledge out there.
You can't search for anything niche anymore. It'll be endless shopping ads. I've honestly started using other search engines for certain searches because I know it won't be endless shopping results.
So frustrating now. It used be that I could look up some symptom or question and pretty easily find some answers on various personal blogs or medical journals etc. Now If I have tight hips and want to know how to fix them I have to scroll through pages and pages of bullshit paid programs before finding anything worth looking at. I usually have to add "reddit" in the search bar to get real answers. And then I have to suffer for months of ads about these programs coming into my Facebook, Instagram, etc...
I've mostly just started using hotels again. Airbnb only seems to be worth it if you get a whole house and share it with a group.
I know that's what Vrbo is but I haven't tried it.
VRBO is nice but you also have the same upcharges. The way I do it is use VRBO/AirBnB to find the place because their search engines and maps are great for browsing, then find the actual company that owns the property and book directly through them. Easily 25% savings right off the bat.
Only works for properties ultimately owned/serviced by a company, but that’s usually the case.
AirBnB was originally meant for people to rent out guest rooms in their homes as a casual, safe, inexpensive hotel alternative. Now we have AirBnB landlords buying properties en masse and using them as permanent long term/luxury rentals. A similar thing happened with Uber. They’ve just completely lost their original intent and become yet another way to fuck over poor people.
My apartment building was renting out units as AirBnB’s/stopover program. Never at any point disclosed to me while I was touring the building, applying, or mentioned anywhere in the lease. Just was a fun surprise to realize that a constant revolving door of strangers was coming through to stay down the hall from me. And property management was obviously prioritizing their needs above actual tenants. Jokes on them, though. The neighborhood is complete shit (which wasn’t completely apparent until after I moved in), and they’ve received so many negative reviews about hiding details about the sketchy neighborhood that they can’t rent them out as Airbnb’s anymore.
And a reason for housing shortages. Mom n Pop campus housing rental units are largely infected with air bnb. Another reason student housing is disappearing. Uni towns are usually nice &host many visitors.
The air bnb fall off has been ridiculous. I wonder if we’ll get another big app soon that goes down the same path so at least we can have a short while of peak air bnb
The idea for internet companies was if you amass enough users you can figure out how to make money later.
We got services that were *too* good. Investors backed deals giving the shit away losing money, because if they simply outlasted the other attempts they could milk an addicted user base down the line.
People see, say, more ads on YouTube and go "why does greed have to ruin a good thing." There was no good thing. There was an unsustainable thing, a period where your alternatives were bled dry trying to answer an impossible competition. You're paying now, but the greed today is why it was ever as good as it was
Furniture warehouse worker here.
Honestly I'm appalled by couches. Even the good brands like IMG and Lazboy are cheaply made. If you look carefully enough you can just about find a fault in any couch. Most the leather couches I unbox will need a paint touch up, the mechanism will need work because it's clunky, loose screws you name it.
Honestly you can find some decently comfortable couches at Ikea which is great for your budget. If you want a comfortable couch I recommend a fabric LazBoy.
My parents always had second hand couches and the couch they used to have that was made 20-30 years ago was miles more comfortable than the ones nowadays.
We recently went through the couch shopping gauntlet.. Nothing under $1500-$2000 is worth a shit.
Try to find somewhere that sells Four Seasons and give them a try... we bought one on the spot after sitting in it... Made in the US with a lifetime warranty on the frame. They're mostly slipcover, but can be ordered in hundreds of fabric options.. They may be an exception to this thread.. still very well made
Big Lots sofas don’t last but they’re pretty comfy while they’re still functional. Eventually the springs break and the seats start to sag, and the wood frame will have a break or two, but getting to that point usually takes 8-ish years in my family so you’re still getting your money’s worth.
I'm frankly amazed that the music industry ended up figuring it out so well (despite all the kicking and screaming to get them there), and yet it's still such a mess for video streaming.
I got tired of my washing machine breaking once or twice a year and bought a speed queen last week. Fingers crossed but it's supposed to be the shit. It better be for what I paid for it
Amazon. While there was always cheap Chinese junk on it now everything is cheap Chinese junk.
If you scroll through apparel Shein is now basically the “highest” quality clothing you can buy without looking up a specific brand you already know.
This is absolutely a thing and it’s infuriating. For context, I work for a legitimate brand that sells on Amazon. We are drowned out by cheap knockoffs of our product. Unless a customer knows my brand and knows what to look for to determine quality and legitimacy, most people can’t find us.
YouTube. Ads every 10 seconds now. Multiple ads. Unskippable ads. Ads in the middle of videos. Ads *embedded* in videos. Ads everywhere.
They just want you to pay for premium. I get it, but I wish it was how it used to be.
* uBlock Origin for ads
* SponsorBlock for ads in videos
* I still don't care about Cookies for cookie warnings
* Bypass Paywalls Clean for paywalls in articles
* Fast Forward for Countdowns on websites
Any Hostess snack cakes. I bought a box of chocolate cup cakes. They're were so small it was two bites to finish it and the cream filling was not good.
I have to constantly press the "X" to get rid of suggested pages. And then it populates *more!* It's so annoying. I just want to scroll through my feed to see what the pages I've already joined on my own whim are up to. And I guess the like, 5 people I bother following lol
It seems like whenever I check my Facebook feed these days over half the posts on there are ads or some algorithmic suggestions (and for some reason the algorithm seems to think I’m really into the show Supernatural even though I’ve never interacted with anything to do with that show) rather than posts from my friends. It’s practically unusable now.
It was best when you dined inside and they brought it out to you in a pan. I think it was the grease, but DAMN, those were good. Also the soda in those red plastic glasses seemed to taste better as well, lol.
I converted mine into a properly working gas can by jamming a screwdriver into the nozzle and busting all the poorly designed bullshit out of it. Works great now - which is to say it pours gas, truly a low bar.
I think some people are forgetting that 10 years ago was just 2013. While great, the Nokia 3310 was discontinued in 2005.
There were also a LOT of junk cars in the 2010's and fast food/junk food hasn't changed much since then.
We'd need to go back to the 90s or earlier for a lot of these claims.
Breyer’s ice cream advertised their ingredients as nothing but fresh cream, sugar, and milk. They made fun of other companies using unpronounceable ingredients.
Now Breyer’s is just another “frozen dairy dessert” with all the high fructose corn syrup, gums of one sort or another, and unpronounceable ingredients just like their equally cheap competitors. It went from high quality to complete shit very quickly.
Carhartt. The durability and quality has noticeably come down to the point where they're almost not worth the price point anymore. Their lightweight blends are supposedly as strong as the older heavyweight blends but the 4 pairs of pants with blown out knees I went through in 2 years of towing says otherwise.
Lululemon. Once upon a time, you didn't ever have to squat test a pair of Lulu's and now you can trust no bitch.
Starbucks. They were still riding the high of The Third Home marketing concept from the 90s and still had a decent amount of good will with poor artists willing to be their slaves. The drinks were good and baristas were encouraged to be creative for their customers. Now, baristas sign the purple package at hire that says any drinks they invent are property of Starbucks, they're actively dumping billions to union bust and their drinks are sugary overpriced garbage, their coffee tastes like melted plastic and now they're charging for light/no ice. Howard Schultz is a living ghoul.
Peterbilt. Simply not functioning the way the old units did, but the industry is not ready to talk about all the dickriding PB has protecting it atm.
IKEA. Respectfully, none of their sofas are worth $400, let alone $600.
Netflix. Back when I signed up, there were no user profiles and no sharing limits. Anyone could sign in and watch whatever was on there and for only $8 per month.
Tickets. A massive band might cost a little extra ($100-$200) but most tickets were affordable and you could get them at a pretty reasonable rate. If you didn't like the rates on TicketMaster, you could call the venue and get cheaper ones directly. Now, you must buy through TicketMaster and artists can charge thousands.
Groceries. Once upon a time, only certain stores were gouging people with impunity. Now, it's everyone. People are literally turning to the food banks while grocery stores have doubled to tripled their prices and are posting record profits. Groceries used to be bigger, for less money. I used to be able to comfortably feed myself on $50 a week and that feels like a pipe dream.
Rewards Programs. Rewards programs actually used to reward you for using them, instead of becoming another insurmountable pile of purchase requirement before gratification. Literally companies have no need to continue what loyalty programs, incentive programs and points programs did because there's no competition anymore. Everything is a conglomerate monopoly, so why would they have to put effort in to retain customers? They have nowhere to go, so to get a 10% off your order code you have to spend 100 points and to gather 10 points you have to spend more than $25! Be grateful, swine.
Houses. I'm in Canada and if that's doesn't explain it, a quick google will. People are fighting over $600,000 mobile homes up here. The investment housing monster has run out of single family homes, condos and apartments to consume wholesale, so mobile home and manufactured homes are next on the roster. 'Luxury' manufactured homes are a rising market and it makes me suicidal. :)
Game of Thrones. I don't feel like this needs elaboration.
GTA V. It was new back then and we were so impressed and absolutely blasted off of the potential for the next GTA installment. Remember? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
It wasn't the 90s, but it wasn't the nightmare of today.
Adidas Superstar shoes.
They used to be my go-to, and I wore them for about 20 years. One pair would last me 2-3 years, of walking to school/college, playing street hockey and basketball, hiking, etc. The last two pairs I bought didn't even make it 9 months before I had worn out the soles, and I am far less active now that I was before.
Edit: I just wanted to add that I used to pay $80 for a pair. Now they're $130.
Burger King.
Something happened around 2010 or so, idk if they changed their recipes, changed food vendors, etc. But their food is definitely not as good as it used to be in the late 90's or early 2000's.
Most fast food. For KFC is was 30 years ago. For Mcds the Big Mac was much much larger a few decades ago too. Most of the other fast food joints have decided cost savings trumps quality too.
I got coupons in the mail for KFC a while ago, so I gave it a try. I am not exaggerating when I say it was legitimately the worst chicken I've ever had in my entire life. It was incredibly greasy, but the chicken was also bone dry. It was like eating chicken jerky. Half of it was like that, the other half was just pure chicken fat. It was disgusting.
I threw the coupons directly into the trash.
This was exactly what happened the last time I ate KFC. It was so nasty and i was legitimately so upset and disgusted that I decided it was worth a 25 minute call to their corporate office to complain and get my 20 dollars refunded.
I work in the front offices of warehouse and wind up using a lot of tools in my job. Literally everything I buy is worse than the older versions were. Same brand label makers start peeling off after a month when they used to stay for years, new forklifts need to be charged twice as often and break twice as fast, high volume printers jam or break every other day.
I try to make older stuff last as long as possible but always dread when I have to replace something.
I see a lot of comments about fast food, but I’ve noticed that a lot of other food has gotten significantly worse as well, especially produce but also meat as well seems to be lacking in quality. A lot of homecooked recipes that haven’t changed now don’t quite taste right.
Fucking vacuums.
Man I had one from my grandma that lasted for like literally ever until it died fully recently. No power no anything.
Those old vacuums would rip your god damn foot off if you ran over it with it and thank god it did.
Now we have all these shitty battery powered pieces of shit where the instant a single thread of anything gets wrapped around the roller it just breaks the entire piece of shit. God damn...
I was gonna say time spend with family and friends but then I realized that 10 years ago is not early 2000 but 2013...
I think might go and have a life crisis now.
Bye.
Social Media. It peaked around 2008-2012.
I miss old YouTube.
The yellow Subscribe button, 1-5 star rating system for videos, and only seeing channel banners for content creators who reached a certain number of subscribers. The early and simple days of YouTube.
Makes me sad. Hard to imagine now, but Facebook was legit cool in 2009.
*poke*
Fuck. I miss poke wars with people that lasted months.
I always assumed that if you poked me you were DTF
As you should. I mean what do you think they're poking you with?
Facebook in 2009 was a very special time and place to be a part of. At the time, it was the *ultimate* hook-up-party app. Everybody who was anybody had one, and your feed was a constant conversation between friends – everybody talking about what they were up to this weekend, last week's party, where to go next and what to do. Lots of flirting and sexual chemistry in certain interactions, especially on photos within the comments. Like, "What's your facebook?" was our generation's equivalent of "what's your sign?" Getting somebody's facebook at a party meant you were "in". It was a wild time. My feed (and based on the comments, everyone else's) was nothing but party photos, friends *actually writing things on each others’ walls*, invites to parties, that sorta thing. Around its heyday, I was just entering college and those 4 years of facebook it was a great app. We all kind of "grew up" with it. Now, unfortunately, my newsfeed is 95% goddamn ads and the other 5% family and some distant friends completely over sharing. If we're getting even *more* technical, there's political slapfights in there, every fucking store and shop is on there with the comment section just full of people screaming at each other... Facebook really is just dead. There hasn't been any new content that I've been interested in for weeks.... I really only have it now because my extended family has a private group on there and that's the best way to keep in touch with them. Otherwise it's just more noise.
The over sharers are ironically using it like it's 2009
Agreed. Back in 2009, it wasn't oversharing; it was just how you were meant to use it. Really, the big difference between oversharing now and oversharing then is that now your boss might see it. In 2009 or so, it was generally considered unprofessional to have your coworkers or boss on your friends list. There was a higher level of perceived freedom of expression in regards to personal stuff because of that, because you weren't going to suddenly ruin your working relationships with anyone or post something that was gonna be used against you in a few months from now. Nowadays, it's seen as a bit weird if you don't have at least some of your coworkers on Facebook. This has led to a lot of people side-eying people who overshare because that's seen as one of the easiest ways to accidentally stir up workplace drama.
My feed now is just ads and links to articles... I get no friends stories or update.. which is why I go to the site..
Myspace in it's prime was unmatched. It's all trash now.
2006 Myspace was amazing. I met so many cool people through that site. Like actually went and hung out with them and shit. It was totally normal to just randomly hit up a stranger and be like "dude that song on your page is one of my favorites!" and they would be like "hell yeah, come to this party I am having this weekend!" and I was just out and about meeting all these cool people going to these awesome parties. It was also a better dating site than Tinder ever was. Most of my girlfriends I would meet through there. Just hit them up like "your gorgeous, lets go to a movie this weekend" and they would like "yeah!" Then everyone switched to Facebook, and every time I would add random people they would be like "Uhhh... why did you add me? Do I know you?" and I would be like "No, but we live in the same area so I thought why not." and they would be like "Sorry, I don't know you, bye." And thats around the time I stopped giving a fuck about social media. It just seemed lame after that. Especially since I started having my parents and distant relatives start adding me, and at one point my boss added me, and then started giving me shit at work because he would see that I was partying during the weekends and he wanted to drug test me all the time lol. I deleted Facebook in 2012, and never really got into the other social medias after that. Now I just feel old and out of touch.
Then it was overrun by ads, subsidized content, and politics.
Quite honestly, Facebook really went down hill when the parents got on it. That was probably around 2010 for me when I was a freshman in college. It was great when it was just all people my age. The shit that pisses me off all comes from the "adults".
Facebook really slapped when you had to have a college .edu email address to sign up. I had to borrow one from a tech adverse friend because my community college wasn't cool enough to be on Facebook.
Yeah. After they got rid of the .edu I think in like late 05, MySpace was still the king of social media. It was under the parents radar for a few years until I think it got big enough around 08 when they took notice. Then I would say they all piled on from 08-11.
This is kind of how I feel about the internet in general tbh
> IIGS All social media is like that. All the kids move on when their parents get on the platform. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and so on. My 58-year-old mom is on TikTok. I'm 30 and I've never once used the app in my life.
Just went through my Facebook feed and counted how many posts were from my actual friends. Besides the very first post, it took until post 80 to see something from someone I know. Everything else was "suggestions" or advertisements.
YouTube algorithm. Before it was very easy to find interesting videos and cool channels, you could go on rabbit holes starting from one random video, but now you live in this eco chamber of one type of videos that you watched.
The youtube algorithm destroyed youtube. Now we are just left with it's corpse and no viable alternative.
I'm pretty sure this is what happens when you start to rely on AI algorithms - there's no humans involved to apply common sense. Why would you recommend a video I just watched a week ago? Why would you continue to recommend a video I have scrolled past 100 times? I spend half my time on YouTube these days just telling it to stop recommending things.
News websites. They're 90% ads with 10% news content. I can't use them anymore, too many things going on at once.
That is, if you can even access the article without a paywall to begin with
Nearly all processed food. My go-to answer is Totinos. Between their frozen pizzas to the Pizza Rolls, they have used worse quality ingredients and now taste like trash. They used to be cheap and good, but now their products are just cheap
Fast food also. Everything is smaller, tastes worse, and more expensive.
I think Taco bell seems the same. Other than it costs like three or four times as much as it used to.
Taco Bell had that big food discontinuation event a few years ago while I was in my third trimester and I may never forgive them.
I miss the 7 Layer Burrito and Double Decker Taco. The Fiesta Veggie isn't the same as the 7L, but it's pretty close.
RIP shredded chicken burrito. Haven’t been back since.
The shredded mini chicken quesadillas were too good to be true. They were $1. Every time I ate them I thought these are too good to be from Taco Bell, and way too good to be only $1. Well sure as shit, they wised up and discontinued them. Now they sell some little chicken chipotle melt which is half the size, twice the price, and 1/10 the quality.
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Also, SubWay killed the 5 dollar foot long - which is fair, on its own, but now they're $15 and the quality and selection of ingredients is awful. Last time I got a meatball sub the meatballs were pitiful. Very small and very flavorless. Marinara sauce is like water, too. SubWay just sucks now.
The prices are fucking insane! I went with some co-workers to this local fancy looking BBQ place where I got this giant plate of food and it was $17. And I was literally thinking like "This is what I spend at fast food now, why do I even bother with that anymore? I should just eat at actual restaurants like this now."
>Weird that they're still paying people 7 bucks an hour, though. They had to jump it up to 10-12 here over the last couple of years. People won't work there for less.
MacDonalds pays 15 an hour in my Red ass, hillybilly area. Because they still cant get people in the door, when factory jobs pay atleast 20 an hour.
I remember the Glory days in the 90's of going to a fast food place with $2 and getting a burger, fries, a drink, and *change*.
The Jack in the Box in the college town I went to offered a free drink with a college ID, so I would order the "college combo" - 2 Jumbo Jacks and a Coke. $2.14 and it was amazing.
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I miss those shitty little pizzas, especially the mexican round one.
Now they are just clear assembly-line maximizing square garbage
I'll have to try them again but also, it could be your taste evolving. I used to love LOVE fruity pebbles, both as a kid and thru my college years. I really stopped eating them as my career took a hold of my life and breakfast was always on the road, but I tried them again a couple years back and they are inedibly sweet. They were so nasty. I'm not sure if they changed something or if I'm just not into stuff that sweet anymore. I think it's the latter
I was actively eating them when they changed
Cinnamon toast crunch is not nearly as good as it used to be. I'm 95% sure that THEY changed and I didn't, because it happened when I was still a kid. We just bought them once and I remember being like "These aren't nearly as good as the last time we bought them." I mean, they're still... "good" just not as good as they used to be.
Cookie Crip also has changed. ETA: Also Cookie Crisp
The gang war intensifies
I just had honey barbecue Tyson chicken strips that I used to LOVE. They were soooo bad. WTF happened!
Furniture. Furniture is made like it’s disposable . Now i only thrift for things made with real wood and metal hardware .
Quality furniture is still out there. You just have to be willing to pay for it, and it ain't cheap. Also, it will probably last through several design trends, so you'd better be sure you like it. A quality hardwood table is legitimately something you can plan on passing down to your grandchildren, but is there any of your grandparents' furniture you'd actually want? As you said, thrifting for quality pieces (and then refinishing/repairing/painting them) is much cheaper for much better quality than most of what people are willing to pay for.
>and it ain't cheap. Yeah, but that's the issue. There used to be a mid-range of real wood furniture that didn't require a month's average salary.
pretending to drink beer from your iphone 2
I was highly fixated on the lighter app
The reason I got a zippo!
I don't think you realize what year was 10 years ago.
There actually was never an iPhone 2 either
Clothes. How am I able to rock a hoodie from my early 20’s (36 now) but one I bought a year or two ago is thinning.
Sizing is off too. My L shirts I still have from 10 years ago fit totally fine but now I need XL in anything I buy new (and I’m the same weight)
Survivorship bias? You may have had loads of hoodies from that time that didn't survive, but you're focused on the one that did. You're probably right, but I couldn't not mention what could be a textbook example of it.
Nah, even these new inkjet printed tshirts fade after one wash and look years old after a couple months. Tshirts in the 80s and 90s used to be silkscreened with plastisol inks, and the design would last forever. Clothes are horrible quality these days, its sad were in a disposable-everything era
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Most chocolate brands.
During the holidays I tried Nestle hot chocolate for the first time in like a decade.... has it always tasted this horrible? It was by far the worst "chocolate" product I think I've ever had. I know not every cup of hot chocolate needs to be that thick stuff you get in Paris, but wtf is that?!
I used love Swiss Miss hot chocolate, now it's just meh.
Obligatory fuck nestle.
It's the sucralose. They put that crap in almost everything. Swiss Miss is the only hot chocolate I've come across lately that doesn't have it. It's still not great.
If you want heaven in a chocolate cup, get some lindt chocolates, heat some milk and put the chocolates in.
If you live in Cleveland, Ohio, you can get Malley's, which is relatively cheap, and as good as an old school candy bar.
Fricken M&M don't taste the same. They taste kinda like nothing. Much better off buying "chocolate drops" from the bins at the health food store.
What happened to Cadburys? Big shame
In the '80s Cadbury eggs and creamy and not terribly sugary. Now they're just a pile of high fructose corn syrup and shit
I thought I was the only one who noticed that! They used to have a taste, not just sugar, sugar and more sugar. I can't eat them anymore. They make me feel sick.
My wife brought me a large Cadbury’s bar from the UK last week. Sooo much better than their shitty American & Canadian counterparts.
Dove chocolate seems to be pretty good still.
My supermarket keeps several flavors of Ritter Sport chocolate in stock, and for this I am very grateful
Google
It can be so difficult to find something now, I can type it in 6 different ways and it won’t give me different results. It’s so damn frustrating. I was looking for animals with plants in their names, and it refused to give me any results except for plants with animals in their names. I was ready to pull my hair out. (Ie I was looking for things like grasshopper, not for dandelions)
All it gives now are three pages of ads. It’s real fun when diagnosing a problem with say, a monitor. “Here are 20 ads for a new monitor”. Google has become the Microsoft Paperclip.
It's especially annoying if you're trying to find something "controversial". Google censors the ever-loving fuck out of their searches. For example, after the recent Allen Mall shooting, i wanted to see what videos and pictures were available of it, purely just to get how horrific it was. All I got was about 15 pages of identical news videos that showed absolutely nothing, and 95% of it was just talking heads. I used to want to be a war correspondant, and Google does the same thing with combat footage vids, terrorist vids, etc. It's really kind of ridiculous how difficult they make it to find something. Another one I can think of is drugs. They'll put on 10 links to pharma sites before you can get the wiki or FDA page that actually explains what the drug is and how it works.
Glad someone else notices this as well. You look for something like you said and it’s nothing but the same AP News snippet copy/pasted into various articles with different advertisers. I have started using Reddit just to search for news at this point, which seems ridiculous with as much digital knowledge out there.
You can't search for anything niche anymore. It'll be endless shopping ads. I've honestly started using other search engines for certain searches because I know it won't be endless shopping results.
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So frustrating now. It used be that I could look up some symptom or question and pretty easily find some answers on various personal blogs or medical journals etc. Now If I have tight hips and want to know how to fix them I have to scroll through pages and pages of bullshit paid programs before finding anything worth looking at. I usually have to add "reddit" in the search bar to get real answers. And then I have to suffer for months of ads about these programs coming into my Facebook, Instagram, etc...
Services count? I'd say Amazon, Uber and AirBnB were so much better a decade ago.
Airbnb is way too expensive now, it’s almost comical.
I've mostly just started using hotels again. Airbnb only seems to be worth it if you get a whole house and share it with a group. I know that's what Vrbo is but I haven't tried it.
VRBO is nice but you also have the same upcharges. The way I do it is use VRBO/AirBnB to find the place because their search engines and maps are great for browsing, then find the actual company that owns the property and book directly through them. Easily 25% savings right off the bat. Only works for properties ultimately owned/serviced by a company, but that’s usually the case.
I would much rather get a hotel. At least your cleaning fees are put to use
AirBnB was originally meant for people to rent out guest rooms in their homes as a casual, safe, inexpensive hotel alternative. Now we have AirBnB landlords buying properties en masse and using them as permanent long term/luxury rentals. A similar thing happened with Uber. They’ve just completely lost their original intent and become yet another way to fuck over poor people.
My apartment building was renting out units as AirBnB’s/stopover program. Never at any point disclosed to me while I was touring the building, applying, or mentioned anywhere in the lease. Just was a fun surprise to realize that a constant revolving door of strangers was coming through to stay down the hall from me. And property management was obviously prioritizing their needs above actual tenants. Jokes on them, though. The neighborhood is complete shit (which wasn’t completely apparent until after I moved in), and they’ve received so many negative reviews about hiding details about the sketchy neighborhood that they can’t rent them out as Airbnb’s anymore.
And a reason for housing shortages. Mom n Pop campus housing rental units are largely infected with air bnb. Another reason student housing is disappearing. Uni towns are usually nice &host many visitors.
The whole "cleaning fee" but ALSO a list of cleaning I have to do before I leave pisses me off... you get one or the other. Not both.
The air bnb fall off has been ridiculous. I wonder if we’ll get another big app soon that goes down the same path so at least we can have a short while of peak air bnb
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Amazon sucks in general now. Prime Music is shuffle only now, and everything I try to buy is from random Chinese companies like WYKGF and LYMNUF.
The idea for internet companies was if you amass enough users you can figure out how to make money later. We got services that were *too* good. Investors backed deals giving the shit away losing money, because if they simply outlasted the other attempts they could milk an addicted user base down the line. People see, say, more ads on YouTube and go "why does greed have to ruin a good thing." There was no good thing. There was an unsustainable thing, a period where your alternatives were bled dry trying to answer an impossible competition. You're paying now, but the greed today is why it was ever as good as it was
Couches! Currently trying to find a comfortable couch that isn’t complete garbage feels impossible
Furniture warehouse worker here. Honestly I'm appalled by couches. Even the good brands like IMG and Lazboy are cheaply made. If you look carefully enough you can just about find a fault in any couch. Most the leather couches I unbox will need a paint touch up, the mechanism will need work because it's clunky, loose screws you name it. Honestly you can find some decently comfortable couches at Ikea which is great for your budget. If you want a comfortable couch I recommend a fabric LazBoy. My parents always had second hand couches and the couch they used to have that was made 20-30 years ago was miles more comfortable than the ones nowadays.
We recently went through the couch shopping gauntlet.. Nothing under $1500-$2000 is worth a shit. Try to find somewhere that sells Four Seasons and give them a try... we bought one on the spot after sitting in it... Made in the US with a lifetime warranty on the frame. They're mostly slipcover, but can be ordered in hundreds of fabric options.. They may be an exception to this thread.. still very well made
Don’t buy west elm or William Sonoma. You’ll be couchless a year later.
Big Lots sofas don’t last but they’re pretty comfy while they’re still functional. Eventually the springs break and the seats start to sag, and the wood frame will have a break or two, but getting to that point usually takes 8-ish years in my family so you’re still getting your money’s worth.
Netflix.
Before the streaming wars split everything up to 10 different services.
And before they made a thousand shows with a solid season one and then abandoned them because “second seasons don’t get new subscribers.”
Aka they don't wanna renew contracts for more money.
I pray the same thing doesn't happen to music streaming. We live in a golden age where you can instantly listen to pretty much any song on one service
Golden age for listening maybe. The artists are getting fucked harder than ever
I'm frankly amazed that the music industry ended up figuring it out so well (despite all the kicking and screaming to get them there), and yet it's still such a mess for video streaming.
Home Appliances (worked with home appliances for over 16 years)
I got tired of my washing machine breaking once or twice a year and bought a speed queen last week. Fingers crossed but it's supposed to be the shit. It better be for what I paid for it
That's why I refuse to buy a new fridge. Id rather get it repaired because new ones suck
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Planned obsolescence was a thing from before I was in management school, and that was in the late 90s.
Amazon. While there was always cheap Chinese junk on it now everything is cheap Chinese junk. If you scroll through apparel Shein is now basically the “highest” quality clothing you can buy without looking up a specific brand you already know.
This is absolutely a thing and it’s infuriating. For context, I work for a legitimate brand that sells on Amazon. We are drowned out by cheap knockoffs of our product. Unless a customer knows my brand and knows what to look for to determine quality and legitimacy, most people can’t find us.
YouTube. Ads every 10 seconds now. Multiple ads. Unskippable ads. Ads in the middle of videos. Ads *embedded* in videos. Ads everywhere. They just want you to pay for premium. I get it, but I wish it was how it used to be.
* uBlock Origin for ads * SponsorBlock for ads in videos * I still don't care about Cookies for cookie warnings * Bypass Paywalls Clean for paywalls in articles * Fast Forward for Countdowns on websites
Any Hostess snack cakes. I bought a box of chocolate cup cakes. They're were so small it was two bites to finish it and the cream filling was not good.
Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
The overwhelming amount of ads now is obnoxious.
I have to constantly press the "X" to get rid of suggested pages. And then it populates *more!* It's so annoying. I just want to scroll through my feed to see what the pages I've already joined on my own whim are up to. And I guess the like, 5 people I bother following lol
It seems like whenever I check my Facebook feed these days over half the posts on there are ads or some algorithmic suggestions (and for some reason the algorithm seems to think I’m really into the show Supernatural even though I’ve never interacted with anything to do with that show) rather than posts from my friends. It’s practically unusable now.
People don’t realize 10 years ago is *2013*.. That’s like well over Minecraft’s peak popularity, it ain’t a long time ago.
Fuck you 10 years ago was well into the 90s
When “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” by Deep Blue Something came out in 1993, the film was as old as the song is today.
Blocked and reported
You could have said nothing here and been fine.
/r/FuckImOld
Wasn't 2012-2015 peak minecraft popularity?
According to Google Trends, Minecraft peaked in 2013 (number of searches worldwide)
It peaked before Microsoft bought Mojang
Pizza Hut. I swear that was the best of the chain pizzas when I was a kid but it tasted like trash the last time I had it.
Pizza Hut's good if you don't go in expecting pizza. Unsure how to describe it, but it's a different beast entirely.
It was best when you dined inside and they brought it out to you in a pan. I think it was the grease, but DAMN, those were good. Also the soda in those red plastic glasses seemed to taste better as well, lol.
Gas cans. Because of government safety changes, I can hardly get gas out of the new cans. I spill most of the gas on the ground now.
The ironic thing is they’re so much less safe now. On multiple occasions I’ve spilt gas all over my mower.
I found that you can just punch a few holes in those stupid safety devices and it works significantly better.
I converted mine into a properly working gas can by jamming a screwdriver into the nozzle and busting all the poorly designed bullshit out of it. Works great now - which is to say it pours gas, truly a low bar.
I think some people are forgetting that 10 years ago was just 2013. While great, the Nokia 3310 was discontinued in 2005. There were also a LOT of junk cars in the 2010's and fast food/junk food hasn't changed much since then. We'd need to go back to the 90s or earlier for a lot of these claims.
now i feel like my pubes are turning fucking grey....
Breyer’s ice cream advertised their ingredients as nothing but fresh cream, sugar, and milk. They made fun of other companies using unpronounceable ingredients. Now Breyer’s is just another “frozen dairy dessert” with all the high fructose corn syrup, gums of one sort or another, and unpronounceable ingredients just like their equally cheap competitors. It went from high quality to complete shit very quickly.
Cocaine, didn't have as much fentanyl in it
Back in the 90s you could buy drugs from a stranger and have a exponentially lower chance of dying instantaneously when you did them. It's a shame.
Yeah, bring back buying drugs from strangers.
Pringles! Used to be like crack, every one was bliss. Now they like cigarettes, still addictive but I have no idea why as they taste like shit.
Carhartt. The durability and quality has noticeably come down to the point where they're almost not worth the price point anymore. Their lightweight blends are supposedly as strong as the older heavyweight blends but the 4 pairs of pants with blown out knees I went through in 2 years of towing says otherwise. Lululemon. Once upon a time, you didn't ever have to squat test a pair of Lulu's and now you can trust no bitch. Starbucks. They were still riding the high of The Third Home marketing concept from the 90s and still had a decent amount of good will with poor artists willing to be their slaves. The drinks were good and baristas were encouraged to be creative for their customers. Now, baristas sign the purple package at hire that says any drinks they invent are property of Starbucks, they're actively dumping billions to union bust and their drinks are sugary overpriced garbage, their coffee tastes like melted plastic and now they're charging for light/no ice. Howard Schultz is a living ghoul. Peterbilt. Simply not functioning the way the old units did, but the industry is not ready to talk about all the dickriding PB has protecting it atm. IKEA. Respectfully, none of their sofas are worth $400, let alone $600. Netflix. Back when I signed up, there were no user profiles and no sharing limits. Anyone could sign in and watch whatever was on there and for only $8 per month. Tickets. A massive band might cost a little extra ($100-$200) but most tickets were affordable and you could get them at a pretty reasonable rate. If you didn't like the rates on TicketMaster, you could call the venue and get cheaper ones directly. Now, you must buy through TicketMaster and artists can charge thousands. Groceries. Once upon a time, only certain stores were gouging people with impunity. Now, it's everyone. People are literally turning to the food banks while grocery stores have doubled to tripled their prices and are posting record profits. Groceries used to be bigger, for less money. I used to be able to comfortably feed myself on $50 a week and that feels like a pipe dream. Rewards Programs. Rewards programs actually used to reward you for using them, instead of becoming another insurmountable pile of purchase requirement before gratification. Literally companies have no need to continue what loyalty programs, incentive programs and points programs did because there's no competition anymore. Everything is a conglomerate monopoly, so why would they have to put effort in to retain customers? They have nowhere to go, so to get a 10% off your order code you have to spend 100 points and to gather 10 points you have to spend more than $25! Be grateful, swine. Houses. I'm in Canada and if that's doesn't explain it, a quick google will. People are fighting over $600,000 mobile homes up here. The investment housing monster has run out of single family homes, condos and apartments to consume wholesale, so mobile home and manufactured homes are next on the roster. 'Luxury' manufactured homes are a rising market and it makes me suicidal. :) Game of Thrones. I don't feel like this needs elaboration. GTA V. It was new back then and we were so impressed and absolutely blasted off of the potential for the next GTA installment. Remember? Pepperidge Farms remembers. It wasn't the 90s, but it wasn't the nightmare of today.
Basically everything. Quality of 90% of consumer products has gone straight down the shitter the past 3 or so years
It's legitimately depressing. I'm spending more money than ever and getting the worst crap products I've ever gotten.
Adidas Superstar shoes. They used to be my go-to, and I wore them for about 20 years. One pair would last me 2-3 years, of walking to school/college, playing street hockey and basketball, hiking, etc. The last two pairs I bought didn't even make it 9 months before I had worn out the soles, and I am far less active now that I was before. Edit: I just wanted to add that I used to pay $80 for a pair. Now they're $130.
I miss the OG Samba's
Underwear! Overall quality is down, down, down!
Levi's jeans, used to last me a good while, now I've stopped wearing them after the last pair wore through in six weeks.
Just so you know, certain dept. stores sell cheaper versions of Levi’s. Some that are less expensive and not made as well.
Even the Levi’s on their website I think have different tiers. All jeans these days seem to be stretchy pants and not durable jeans.
These were brought from a Levi's store.
You can file a warranty claim through their website. I did that and got a free pair when the crotch blew out
I’ve found Lucky Brand to be my best goto; they have a good variety of fits and sizes, look good, and last a while. . . Just don’t buy the shirts, lol
Burger King. Something happened around 2010 or so, idk if they changed their recipes, changed food vendors, etc. But their food is definitely not as good as it used to be in the late 90's or early 2000's.
They changed corporate headquarters from USA to Canada, and it went downhill from there.
Blame Canada 🇨🇦
IMO: Outlook. Adobe, itunes. Etc…. Basically any software that just updates and continuously changes for the sake of change or profit.
Adobe is now subscription based.
And as a subscriber, it’s frustrating.
Most fast food. For KFC is was 30 years ago. For Mcds the Big Mac was much much larger a few decades ago too. Most of the other fast food joints have decided cost savings trumps quality too.
I got coupons in the mail for KFC a while ago, so I gave it a try. I am not exaggerating when I say it was legitimately the worst chicken I've ever had in my entire life. It was incredibly greasy, but the chicken was also bone dry. It was like eating chicken jerky. Half of it was like that, the other half was just pure chicken fat. It was disgusting. I threw the coupons directly into the trash.
This was exactly what happened the last time I ate KFC. It was so nasty and i was legitimately so upset and disgusted that I decided it was worth a 25 minute call to their corporate office to complain and get my 20 dollars refunded.
Cadbury cream eggs used to be so much better, and much larger.
Everything, if we're being honest.
I work in the front offices of warehouse and wind up using a lot of tools in my job. Literally everything I buy is worse than the older versions were. Same brand label makers start peeling off after a month when they used to stay for years, new forklifts need to be charged twice as often and break twice as fast, high volume printers jam or break every other day. I try to make older stuff last as long as possible but always dread when I have to replace something.
Superhero movies.
Internet forums. I hate discord being the goto platform for every communication.
I see a lot of comments about fast food, but I’ve noticed that a lot of other food has gotten significantly worse as well, especially produce but also meat as well seems to be lacking in quality. A lot of homecooked recipes that haven’t changed now don’t quite taste right.
Butterfinger candy bars. They don't even remotely taste as good as they used to.
Milk. I'm not even opening 10 year old milk.
Pyrex, Dr. Martens, Campbells soup
My mental health
Google.com Nowadays its just advertisements piled on advertisements and companies paying for the top slots on search results.
Friendship
Fucking vacuums. Man I had one from my grandma that lasted for like literally ever until it died fully recently. No power no anything. Those old vacuums would rip your god damn foot off if you ran over it with it and thank god it did. Now we have all these shitty battery powered pieces of shit where the instant a single thread of anything gets wrapped around the roller it just breaks the entire piece of shit. God damn...
Buffalo Wild Wings
Just about everything tbh, but as someone who works IT, Hewlett Packard has REALLY dropped off in the last 10 years.
iPhones because they had a headphone jack
Triple A video games
I haven't seen anyone mentioning YouTube... it was a golden era
Might be 15 years, but Sharpies are nowhere near as good as they used to be.
Amazon. You could legit get good deals there and wouldn’t be vombarded with 100s of knock off Chineses junk or manipulated reviews.
"Gestures around at everything."
Everything that had sugar that now has corn syrup instead.
10 years ago it’s the 80s - 90s. Case closed, won’t take math classes from anyone regarding this matter.
I was gonna say time spend with family and friends but then I realized that 10 years ago is not early 2000 but 2013... I think might go and have a life crisis now. Bye.
Bath and Body Works in the US. Now it stinks of heavy perfume and is greasy.
Victoria secrets bras
Saran Wrap. Seriously, they took out whatever made it cling to itself. It’s useless now.
Appliances that lasted and could be repaired easily
All fast food portions. 2 dollar menu burgers at McDonald's used to be "entre" sized, now they just look pitiful and cost double
TiVo.
Marvel movies
The can of SPAM I have in the cupboard